The CLARITY Stakeholder Taxonomy

by admin | 04 Oct, 2016

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In this post, we will briefly describe what we have done for our first Deliverable – The CLARITY Stakeholder Taxonomy. On the basis of analysis of stakeholder activities we defined primary and secondary roles for each stakeholder category. We see primary players as those who are directly involved in developing, testing, running, and broadly harnessing e-Government applications. Secondary players, we see as those who are indirectly involved in supporting and initiating, developing, testing, promoting and harnessing e-Government applications.

After our research, we concluded to have six stakeholder categories:

Public Administration

Individual citizens

Industry

Technology drivers and innovators

Non-profit organizations

Engagement catalysts

Furthermore, in addition to national organizations, we also include supranational government in the public administration category, because EU, the UN, or the World Bank, among others, can be all considered as open government stakeholders .

We identified EU projects such as Joinup, e-SENS and Digital4EU as good practice examples in the open eGovernment ecosystem in Europe that fits to supranational government examples. If we need to pick one example to clarify, we can pick Joinup. Joinup’s main goal is to form a repository and exchange of knowledge between eGovernment officials.

Among all country specific applications, we have also noticed that The United Kingdom’s portal gov.uk can be considered as a model for interoperability and of being a one-stop-shop to all other EU countries. This portal brings together 24 ministerial departments, and 331 other agencies and public bodies into a single, highly legible, and accessible portal.

We are well aware that we might have missed out some examples, but our goal was to have a general overview of the ecosystem and do taxonomy based on that. If you know of good examples, please feel free to send them our way by use of social media, email or via comments to this post.

You can reach detailed information regarding these categories and government applications in our report. Also, check out our other reports on the downloads page.

Please feel free to download our report and do not hesitate to reach us if you want to provide us feedback or want to contribute to our research.

Serdar Temiz, Open Knowledge Sweden, on behalf of the CLARITY partners

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The CLARITY project supports European Member States in their pursuit for greater trust, transparency and efficiency within their open eGovernment initiatives and highlights best practice within this field.